“If we don’t enter this market, then exactly what happened to the music industry could happen to us.”
BBC new media director Ashley Highfield, on the fear that failing to post the Beeb’s programming online could lead to bloated salaries and ridiculously overpriced product, 3 May 2004
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=517636
“If there turns out to be a problem, the silver lining is that it would force coordination amongst aggregator developers. I would love to build that system. But these ideas all cost money and require developers to play nice.”
Dave Winer, on the problem of blog-reading software overloading websites, Wired News, 30 April 2004
“Do not be surprised if we place smaller bets in areas that seem very speculative or even strange.”
Google cofounder Larry Page, on his plan to take shareholders’ money and run R&D projects, SEC.gov, 29 April 2004
“We had hoped the redemptions would have been higher.”
Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton, on the abject failure of a Pepsi-iTunes song giveaway, News.com, 28 April 2004
“Search has become a lot more than we think of search.”
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on diversifying away from the business of helping people locate websites, News.com, 27 April 2004
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